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Enough about the headphone jack going away - isn't anyone concerned with how big of a deal they made about Pokemon on the Apple watch?

Apple looked so uncool and out of it when they continued to talk about it. Half the crowd has forgotten Pokemon Go even existed by this point.

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They looked astonishing lame all throughout by constantly having to tell the viewer how glorious and awesome everything was. If they can't just tell us what the feature is and let us be amazed by the feature itself, then whatever they're saying just isn't that great. I don't care how many transistors are in a processor, it's trivia. I don't care what a marvel of engineering the W1 is. I don't even care that they dug out their childhood rock polishers to make the new case shiny.

That's basically apple's keynote style, going all the way back to Steve. I always find the design videos interesting (the ones with Ive narrating).

That part of the presentation was awful and had me rolling my eyes. "Oh, I wonder what Pokemon it's going to be inside this egg... Pikachu!" <halfhearted claps>

They could have made it funny by having the worst Pokemon appear. Or having it run away. Very poor showmanship.

How is talking about a game that came out 2 months ago out of it?

> Half the crowd has forgotten Pokemon Go

The crowd that originally played the game when it came out was gigantic. Even half of that is still a huge number of people.

>How is talking about a game that came out 2 months ago out of it?

I think he means to say talking about a game at keynote is not very Apple-ish, considering their luxurious brand image.

Apple keynotes used to have like a 30+ minute section devoted to games and other third party apps. Or the time where they demoed a remote-control car on stage (and it failed horrifically).

It might not be cool or interesting, but it's fairly standard 'Apple'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnsR-kZUx6o

What part of the demo failed? There was the mirrored video glitch for half a second, but I assume that was on the cameraman.

If you watched it live, that keynote actually had the car fail for at least a couple of minutes while the makers tried to fix it. I'm sure the videos they have published now edited that lag.

I enjoyed the "it's road trip" failure the other year. That made me laugh a lot, unintentionally by them of course

Their third-party demos are almost always really weak. I don't really understand why they keep having them. I think these events would be quite a bit improved if Apple just stuck to Apple.

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